Dennis Cheatham

“The way I see it—you spend the first fifteen years of your life as a sponge soaking up influences and experiences; and the remainder of your life recycling, reprocessing, and regurgitating those first fifteen years.” -Martin Short

I explore how design thinking, processes, and outcomes affect, and are influenced by human perception and behavior on a systemic level. Through getting to know people groups via field work and facilitating co-creation of design interventions, my work benefits communities while producing a clearer understanding of how people construct meaning by studying the solutions they create.